The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued an order making it mandatory for sweet shops to declare the expiry date or ‘best before date’ of all sweets available in the shop.
The order will come into effect from October 1.
Now, at the sweet shop, it will be necessary to state the ‘best before date; in front of all the sweets. Now, the sweets will have to be sold before the expiry date.
The FSSAI has also ordered to mention the date of making the sweets on its labelling while selling them. But, the order is not mandatory leaving it at the discretion of the shopkeepers divulge the aforementioned piece of information about the date of manufacture.
Earlier, the FSSAI had stated that mithai shops will have to mandatorily mention the date of manufacture on the labels. “Further, in public interest and to ensure food safety, it has been directed that…